Happy Birthday, iPad: Apple's Tablet Turns 16

Today marks the 16th day of erstwhile Apple released the first-generation iPad. After Steve Jobs announced the ‌iPad‌ connected January 27, 2010, it launched a fewer months aboriginal connected April 3, 2010.


Apple's archetypal ‌iPad‌ looked similar a larger mentation of the iPhone, featuring heavy bezels, a 9.7-inch multitouch show with a 1,024 x 768 resolution, a Home Button, and a 30-pin dock connector. The ‌iPad‌ was the archetypal instrumentality that Apple released with a custom-designed chip, the Apple A4.

The conception of a tablet instrumentality similar the ‌iPad‌ really predated the iPhone, and Apple had a prototype task successful the works successful 2004. Then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs wanted to prioritize the iPhone, truthful the ‌iPad‌ was enactment connected clasp until aft the iPhone was established.

Apple priced the ‌iPad‌ astatine $499, and Jobs called it a "magical and revolutionary instrumentality astatine an unbelievable price." Like the iPhone, the ‌iPad‌ dominated the tablet space, and it inactive continues to bash truthful today. Apple sold a cardinal iPads successful the archetypal month, and portion competitors similar Microsoft and Samsung rapidly came retired with competing tablets of their own, the ‌iPad‌ has nary match.

Apple has led the planetary tablet marketplace for implicit a decennary and nary rival comes adjacent to matching its tablet marketplace share. As of the 4th fourth of 2025, Apple's marketplace stock was 44.9 percent, with Samsung the adjacent closest astatine 14.7 percent.

Apple has expanded its ‌iPad‌ lineup implicit the years, and we present person aggregate sizes astatine aggregate terms points. The 11-inch ‌iPad‌ is disposable for those who privation a low-cost option, portion the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air are mid-range products with a Mac chip. The 8.3-inch iPad mini is disposable for those who privation a smaller-sized tablet, and for those who privation top-of-the-line show with Apple's latest Mac chip, the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro models are available.
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